Broadcom bcm43xx wireless driver [beta]

Posted 24 August 2011 - 03:47 AM

LatinMcG

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Here Broadcom BCM 4318 (tested both an USRobotics MaxG and an Asus WL-g38 v2) running on snow server 10.6.8 with Kernel and Extension@64bit and with NO DSDT ( modded bios). They don't work!Already tested changing this kexts : IO80211 and IONetworkingfamily from 10.6.0/1/2/3/4/5/6/7....they still don't work!

Also tested IOPCFamily and AppleACPIPlatform, as before, from 10.6.0/1/2/3/4/5/6/7

tested also in E/E and S/L/E ! Still nothing!Some help? Thanks

what is the actual device id and subsystem? retry a fresh install.. since u kext poisoned it?use a dsdt and proper smbios.plist

but best bet is the mini pci-e adapter with a laptop original card in it

Yes..i know! I told you was a BCM4318 ( BroadCoM4318)! Unfortunately i have only one slot pci on my motherboard! Do you mean to inject that subvendor in a specific kext? If it's so..can you tell me in which one and the correct position to put the string? Thanks! In the IO80211.kext there is already that ID, in fact it always worked before 10.6.8!

Posted 27 August 2011 - 01:50 AM

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Yes..i know! I told you was a BCM4318 ( BroadCoM4318)! Unfortunately i have only one slot pci on my motherboard! Do you mean to inject that subvendor in a specific kext? If it's so..can you tell me in which one and the correct position to put the string? Thanks! In the IO80211.kext there is already that ID, in fact it always worked before 10.6.8!

what smbios.plist you use ?let me see the ioregexplorer dump and dsdtim gona try to rebrand in dsdt.

do u have pci-express slots 1x ?http://www.ebay.com/...=item1e6283ec23and add a wireless card under the metal box in picture like ar5b91 or bcm94321but yours should work. prior to 10.6.8 tells me its either subvendor issue or smbiosplist is missing the SMboardid for the model(i had no wireless with it missing)edit _UID to Zero instead of One under Device (PCI) in DSDT.aml

u can boot linuxmint 11 live and follow steps to rebrand the subvendor and subsystem.. but first let me see the smbios.plist and ioregistryexplorer dump and dsdt

Posted 27 August 2011 - 10:30 AM

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Thanks again! Unfotunately i have NO dsdt and NO smbios! I use a mythical bios modded by Cartri! But however in system profiler i can see "mac pro 3.1" and...cpu and other components are perfectly recognized . As i told...until 10.6.7 pci card worked perfectly ! I think it's a problem regarding network or wireless or pcicard kexts...but i already try everything with no success ! I use snow server 10.6.8 with kernel and extensions @ 64bit!

Posted 29 August 2011 - 02:58 AM

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Thanks again! Unfotunately i have NO dsdt and NO smbios! I use a mythical bios modded by Cartri! But however in system profiler i can see "mac pro 3.1" and...cpu and other components are perfectly recognized . As i told...until 10.6.7 pci card worked perfectly ! I think it's a problem regarding network or wireless or pcicard kexts...but i already try everything with no success ! I use snow server 10.6.8 with kernel and extensions @ 64bit!

I installed the iAtkos S3 v2 on my computer. I have not changed a setting in any phase of installation. So I did the installation with the current settings. But usb wireless device does not work. Thank you in advance for your help. Best regards.

Posted 01 October 2011 - 05:32 PM

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excuse me.. how could you run the script if it searchs for the 4311kext under io80211.. and in lion it never exist?

Don't ask me how I did it but it did "work". At first it failed and told me to locate it manually and I did and it didn't complain or anything, I have read about how that file is missing however, so I guess the script ran but did nothing, which would explain why nothing has changed.

Posted 26 October 2011 - 07:32 PM

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I have an Broadcom brcm4321 that used to show up as airport once the activation script was run. After updating to 10.7.2, it can no longer be activated no matter what I tried. System info still shows that it is there but I can't get to it.
Any idea why? Something has changed in 10.7.2 IO80211Family next that creates this odd behavior.
The bcm43xx_enabler script used to work on this card in 10.7.1, just to clarify.

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Posted 01 November 2011 - 08:15 PM

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I have an Broadcom brcm4321 that used to show up as airport once the activation script was run. After updating to 10.7.2, it can no longer be activated no matter what I tried. System info still shows that it is there but I can't get to it.Any idea why? Something has changed in 10.7.2 IO80211Family next that creates this odd behavior.The bcm43xx_enabler script used to work on this card in 10.7.1, just to clarify.